On Sunday I popped down to London Fields Radio to record the first ever FFS radio show in a cafe against a background of the clatter of crockery and the hum of Hackney-ites chatting. There’ll be a monthly-or-thereabouts show from…
FFS New Bands Panel: Garforth & Myers
Using a good deal of skill and a seemingly extensive contacts book, Garforth & Myers have produced the Bonfires EP as an early taster of an album to follow. The panel found plenty to anticipate. Alice Sage: This is a…
FFS New Bands Panel: Three Pairs of Shoes
Iain Birkett, Matt Tilling and Livi Sinclair found each other at university in Cardiff, and turned themselves into Three Pairs of Shoes. The early results of their coming together can be found on the Talybont EP, so the panel took…
FFS New Bands Panel: Lauren & Tokyo
All the way from Canada come Lauren & Tokyo, a meeting of Lauren Campbell’s folk melodies and Tokyo Speirs creative production that creates a special kind of him and her combo. The panel went in to investigate. Kate Hinksman: Every…
Video: Alessi’s Ark and Rachael Dadd introduce Japan to The Robot
While sat barefooted on the tatami mats in Kyoto’s Cafe Yugue (home to arguably the best bagels in all of Japan. Seriously.), FFS filmed Alessi’s Ark at her first Japanese gig. Alessi was accompanied on a few songs by fellow British folkster…
FFS New Bands Panel: Let’s Buy Happiness
Let’s Buy Happiness might be the hottest thing going in their native north-east, and not just because of the usually baltic weather conditions. When someone like Drowned In Sound’s Sean Adams describes you as “…one of the most thrilling new…